Verilux Rise & Shine Natural Alarm Clock Deluxe Bedside Lamp, Ivory
There is nothing finer than a good night's sleep - except for waking up in luxury! Wake up in style with the Rise & Shine! This is a radio, alarm clock, nature sounds, and lamp all in one! In the morning, the lamp slowly brightens and the high-fidelity speaker increases volume over 5-60 minutes so you can gently wake up to your favorite AM/FM radio station. No more blaring! Or, for an even more natural way to wake - try setting the alarm to one of the nature sounds. Choose from birds, harbor, village, brook, ocean, forest, rain, or breeze sounds. At night, the process reverses to help you get to sleep. This lamp also provides Natural Spectrum light for reading. The display of this clock adjusts to 7 different hues and high/low brightness. Other features include a linen shade, snooze button, and a pillow speaker that runs from the lamp directly to your pillow - so the sound wakes only you! ABS Plastic Lamp with a Linen Shade. Assembly level/degree of difficulty: Easy. A restocking fee will be deducted if this item is returned.
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Verilux Rise & Shine Natural Alarm Clock Deluxe Bedside Lamp, Ivory Reviews
I'd much prefer the dimmer knob to be an actual knob. Also it requires more force than it should to turn on/off and I've knocked the lamp over a few times because you need to support it from behind to activate the switch. Instead of being angry and resistant and snoozing I am already alert and aware when the alarm goes off and just roll right out of bed. Everything else (radio, alarm timer, clock, lamp, et.al). I can't stand waking up before dawn and the lamp removes the startling irritating response that my alarm clock creates.
works exactly as you would expect it to. The incandesent 'bulb' is tinted to adjust the color slightly, but otherwise purely aestetic. Good product. The bulb is a DC halogen capsule just like a headlight on a car and the brightness is comperable to having a car's highbeam inside a lampshade.
Very bright. Instead you turn it 45deg left/right and it presses a button to dim/brighten. Overall I'm very pleased with the lamp and the effect. Good features, particularly the timer that gently increases the brightness for some time in the morning.
Build quality could be better.
Overall, this is an o-kay alarm clock slash lamp. If you're looking for real sunlight type exposure I'd suggest looking elsewhere. Most of those sufferers don't have an official diagnoses, but they know when winter time comes and the days are short and the clouds hang out a little too much, something in their stamina and mood changes. We had to exchange it. If you want something that turns on slowly and buzzes a bit, then this will work just fine, however, it's rather over-priced for that purpose alone.
And honestly, the light doesn't seem all that different than my CF bulb bedside lamp. When the light is on any setting other than sun-ray bright it makes a low buzz, which makes it an irritating reading light. The sounds and music were all staticky unless turned up to high. While the lamp and alarm-clock do as promised, it's effects aren't very good. We purchased the graphite version of this lamp a little over a year ago, hoping it would boost my husband's energy in the mornings over the winter.
The promise of simulated sun-light and chirping birds sounded delightful. Something you may have heard about Seattle is many people suffer from SAD here (seasonal affective disorder). BTW, when we first ordered this item we got a faulty one.
I chose this model because it seemed to the best on the market, and I was horrified to see something so conceptually simple that could cost this much and be so poorly designed and manufactured. I just got one of these, and I must say I'm terribly disappointed, and the reviews here have reinforced that my problems were not unique to me. 5) The gradual turning-on of the light begins too bright, it woke me up as soon as it came on. Wish I could recommend a better model, but I would definitely not recommend this one.
Since I live in Canada, between the exchange rate and shipping, I spent nearly as much on this thing as I did on my 80GB iPod. 2) It hums audibly just from having the lamp turned on, the dimmer the light the more the hum, it seems, so as soon as it lights it makes the most hum. The old $12 alarm clock that this was going to (but alas, will not) replace has a better tuner. 1) The display, even in dimmed mode, is too bright, it lights up the room more than some night lights I've seen.
So much for a nice easy wake up. 3) The sound feature is worthless, either using the radio or supplied sounds, since the pitiful sound system amplifies the aforementioned hum so as to drown out anything else coming over the speaker. 6) Overall, it seems rather flimsy in terms of construction. It is irritating to the point of making any sounds for wake-up unusable.
Here are my beefs, after just one night of use:. 4) The radio reception is horrible, and doesn't even display the radio frequency on the lit display.
Without the light it has become the biggest, most expensive, alarm clock without actually ever knowing what time it is. The alarm still functions. I know I need to contact the manufacturer for Verilux Rise & Shine Natural Alarm Clock Deluxe Bedside Lamp. This item only worked for one week before the light and the time readout display stopped working. Hmmmm.
Don't take a chance with this garbage. When it arrived and I plugged it in, it started to scream. I called Verilux and they said that a lot of them came from the factory that way they didn't stop selling them, they just shipped replacements when the bad ones turned up. I bought one of these and thought it was a neat idea.
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